Show david rust does not like name of canyon B ridge bridge from richfield reaper undoubtedly few men it any are better acquainted or have more real interest in ili the colorado river cani yoila than does well known guide david rust lie he seems seeing to extend over thorn them a protecting hand with a view to giving each individual canyon its full credit for scenic beauty and with this thought in fit mind lie he la Is prone to raise contentious content conten lou tiou against some misleading publicity given tho the newly constructed bridge spanning the colorado river five miles below lees ferry as being a bridge across the rand grand canyon of the co colorado a when in ili reality the bridge is sixty miles from grand canyon the canyon crossed by the bridge la Is a canyon oil only or feet deep at the point spanned by the bridge it is a beautiful canyon not so 90 deelas deep as the grand but more narrow and typical of the spanish word canyon it was named marble canyon by major powell and other explorers says mr rust and finally they did not namo name it thoughtlessly now why bring in our scheming heads and try to maka it different the colorado river flows through a number of distinctly separate canyons De beginning ginning at a point where the green and grand rivers join in san juan county anti and here we might state that the grand river will bo be known on the new maps mapa as the colorado river to form the colorado river cataract canyon a rough and rugged canyon rises and continues tor for a distance ot of fifty miles from cataract canyon the river enters glen canyon canyon of the color rado a beautiful canyon through which wh ich the river flows without unusual roughness the full length of its miles it la Is through this canyon the greater part ot of which lies ites butali In Utah that mr rust has guided expeditions at the end of glen canyon Is leos lees ferry and immediately below lees perry ferry Is ia marble canyon a canyon sixty five miles long which threads its way through the picturesque painted desert of arizona the new bridge Is five miles below lees perry ferry spanning marble canyon and sixty miles below it the grand canyon starts its mile stretch at a point where the little colorado enters the main stream and the river starts through the kaibab baiba plateau marble canyon la Is no more a part dart of grand canyon than Is black canyon or the much t eke of D boulder 0 u I 1 A e r canyon through which the colorado flows when people see it they will know it Is ia not grand canyon and to call the bridge the grand canyon highway bridge or na as it la IS just as frequently spoken of the bridge across uie the and canyon wont stick when people learn that G grand r a d canyon y 0 il Is 18 sixty miles away As linit for or the aig can names 0 of f these canyons I 1 a am w willing 1 11 to c carry a r ry on oil and call them just as they havo have boon bee a called on oil tho the maps since their discovery As for the name of the bridge we might just as well put the jordan bridge over provo river would not tho the logical name be marble canyon bridge when a change Is logical I 1 agree with it but I 1 just want to make a plea for a little common sense A glanco glanceau glan ceat at any standard map excepting the new road maps which call tho the point in ili guestion tho the site alto of tho the now bridge across grand canyon or grand canyon highway bridge will show all of tho the canyons in tho the order given by mr air rust mr rust went onto on 0 o state of 0 course no one would or could detract from the grandeur peculiar alone to tho the ox ex grand canyon with its width in places 0 of front from five to twenty miles and depth from 2000 to feet but sald mr air rust why lot let grand arani canyon gobble everything referring to tho the other name by which tho the bridge lg IS known and has been marked I 1 loos leos ferry bridge mr R rust 0 t boomed I 1 puzzled as to the apar appropriateness 0 itt r la ceness of naming a bridge bridga after a torry ferry anti and as for naming it ft after mr loo lee kie he said we want to lot him rest tit in peace if he may 11 two other names suggested in the controversy over naming the bridge mr rust viewed N yilth more favor the names hamblin after tho the noted pioneer and frontiersman ders man or hastelle after the chieftain who befriended tho early settlers sett lors of tho the country but said he be perhaps greater things could be named after them and added with a smile lafter after all they were not nob bridge men mell they were wild men both of them the ill mr rust maintains that the namo name ot of the bridge will be misleading to tourists and people in general they will ivill not like to be told when they reach tho the bridge that grand canyon Is sixty miles below and on the other hand the name will detract from marble canyon to the extent that people do not seo see what they expect while marble canyon if t known by its own name will fascinate them with its beauty |